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<h1>Velocityme Minutes 51<br>
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      <td valign="top">2005-06-16<br>
10h50-12h45<br>
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Pinelands<br>
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      <td valign="top">Robert Crida (RC)<br>
Barry Radloff (BR)<br>
John Spence (JS)<br>
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Velocityme partnership. The agreed shares in Velocityme and crIdea
solutions cc are RC (60%), BR and JS (20% each).<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">BR noted that he is officially
labelled as PDI (previously disadvantaged individual) which could
potentially be beneficial for our company.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">2.<br>
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for presentation to new IT manager for Prop5</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">This meeting is expected to take
place in roughly the next week and could potentially include Mbali.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">3.<br>
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presentation<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">The following technical basics
should be highlighted during the presentation:<br>
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        <li>Web browser agnostic</li>
        <li>Operating System agnostic</li>
        <li>Database agnostic</li>
        <li>Built using Enterprise Java (portability, scalability,
stability - extensively tried and tested, broad usage by large
organisations)</li>
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Alternatives were .NET (less stable) and C++ (more work)<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Velocityme
is Flexible Change Management Software</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">Consider a project. It involves
multiple tasks and actions such as digging holes and issueing tickets.
Ultimately these actions all distill down to changes. The following
factors are involved: people, deadlines, information, risk and
penalties.<br>
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scenarios by tracking/controlling/influencing<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">5.<br>
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presentation</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">Focus of this presentation is to
demonstrate that there will be a tangible benefit for the money spent.
We therefore have to prove that it will save them money.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">5.1<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">The following topics are to be
addressed during the presentation:<br>
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        <li>Change</li>
        <li>People</li>
        <li>Risk</li>
        <li>Penalties</li>
        <li>Milestones</li>
        <li>Information</li>
        <li>Technology</li>
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In addition we should highlight: audit trails, timescale updates,
QA/ISO process friendly, conflicts, progress, phonecalls &amp;
meetings, arbitrary depth hierarchy, responsibility assignment,
multiple projects, management support (search/reports/statistics/weekly
reports)<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">5.2<br>
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demonstrate that a project is all about change, ie actions distill to
change and we can help manage it.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">5.3<br>
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(Denial)</span><br>
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presentation proposal sent as email to JS<br>
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Approach to Project Plan</span><br>
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practice from PM as to how to create a project plan.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">The problem occurs the moment
that the project starts and the plan starts to become inaccurate due to
failures to update it.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">Velocityme automates maintaining
project plan by destributing responsibility for maintaining the plan.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">Alternative options:<br>
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        <li>Microsoft - use MS Project</li>
        <li>SA route - Velocityme</li>
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          <li>Advantages - job creation, support local economy, local
support<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">6.<br>
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basis for presentation which can be worked on by RC, JS and BR.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">2005-06-18<br>
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      <td valign="top">Robert Crida<br>
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      <td valign="top">2005-06-16<br>
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      <td valign="top">TBD<br>
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      <td valign="top">TBD<br>
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